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by Brian Zipse (ZATT)

Like a shot he is off. And then, he is gone again. Blink your eyes and you may miss him. I was able to catch a glimpse of him on Preakness Day, mind you, it was only a glimpse.

“Who was that horse?” I heard someone say as he rolled by.

He has been lighting up tracks both day and night since his debut last September, zipping through sophomore stakes as if they are his own personal playgrounds. Some lucky fans in West Virginia were lucky enough to see him on Saturday night. If only briefly.

The horse is Comedero, and he has done it again, routing six rivals in the $400,000 Red Legend Stakes on Saturday at Charles Town Races & Slots.
“This could be the best three-year-old in the country!“ exclaimed Charles Town track announcer, Jeff Cernik, as Comedero opened up by eight or nine lengths early in the lane.

Strong words probably, but it is becoming more doubtful that anyone in this crop can stay with him at least for the first six panels. Comedero has romped home in each of his five starts this year, all of them stakes, and with a combined winning margin of just about 30 lengths.

Surely that number would be higher if not for jockey Robby Albarado gearing him down late in the Red Legend score.

Comedero, was sent straight to the front in the richest sprint race for three-year-olds. He raced unopposed as he lengthened his lead with disdainful ease. The huge margin allowed Albarado to peek back, and wrap up his charge well before the wire. Final margin over Mylilsecret was 2 ¼ lengths, but it no doubt could have been much larger.

Coming off a win in the Grade 3 Chick Lang Stakes at Pimlico most recently, the bay gelding, in the pink silks, improved his career record to eight wins out of nine races, with his only coming in a poor effort at the extended distance of a mile at Remington Park as a juvenile.

He has already surpassed half a million in earnings. In each of those eight wins, no horse has been able to come close to Comedero in the stretch. The fleet Arkansas-bred is a son of Posse and Pawnee Patti, by Sir Richard Lewis. He has now won seven stakes, including tow at Charles Town, where he had previously accounted tor the Blue and Gold Stakes by nine lengths April 17.

Seeing Comedero become this good can be no surprise. After all he was bred in the Thoroughbred hotbed of Arkansas and has exclusively run in all the big race states of Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, West Virginia, and Maryland. I kid of course, these are not places that we usually expect champions, but a champion sprinter is what Comedero may very well become. Time to bring on the big boys.